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you could wipe yourself out of existance, or any number of people which could lead to things like cures or new technology being invented. Imagine you you went back in time and took J.Smiths ride before he could get into the carriage, he may not then bump into the woman that would have eventually become his wife. They would never meet and their descendant that would have found a cure to small pox never born, small pox then wipes out hundreds of thousands of people. Going into the future may have the same effect but it would make a blind bit of difference to us. |
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Personally, I reckon it would be more dangerous to travel back in time due to the 'ripple-effect'. If you travelled back in time, the smallest action you make, such as squashing a mosquito could have massive repercussions for the future. What if the mosquito would have gone on to bite someone and cause malaria, but by killing them it is no longer able to do this? What if this person, now given a reprieve, goes onto murder someone and so on...
The world you return to could be altered beyond recognition. |
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Physicist state a possibility of going into the future, but not back in time. It is impossible to detail the location of every particle and it's location in the past to re-enact that setting. Basically it is impossible because no once recorded this information to begin with; and even if we started to do so, it would not be possible with our technology today. Brian Greene's "Fabric of the Cosmos" addresses this issue nicely in one of the chapters.
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